THE BEST SHRUBS TO PLANT 109 



with ovate leaves and terminal clustered 

 cymes of yellow flowers. 



CASTANOPSIS CHRYSOPHYLLA must on no 

 account be omitted from any list of shrubs 

 that are suitable for planting in the more 

 smoky parts of our larger centres of industry, 

 as both in London and Edinburgh it has been 

 proved to be a valuable addition to such 

 plants. 



MAHONIA AQUIFOLIA, M. BEALII, and M. 

 JAPONICA all do fairly well in the town 

 garden, but are the better of being assigned 

 to select positions in the open. Good vege- 

 table mould seems to suit the various species 

 of Mahonia, and, when once fairly estab- 

 lished, they grow and flower freely. All are 

 shrubs of great beauty: the bright and 

 showy flowers, produced in rich profusion, 

 are followed by abundance of clusters of rich 

 bluish-purple berries. 



SKIMMIA JAPONICA is a low -growing 

 shrub that I have seen doing well in the heart 

 of London, where smoke and other impurities 

 of the air do not seem to affect it in the least. 



